Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 - activists want this statue in Brussels removed due to his brutal regime in Congo Free State Inside the palatial walls of Belgium's Africa Museum stand ...

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King Leopold II gave up direct control in 1908, and Belgium formally annexed the country, renaming it the Belgian Congo. Colonisers continued to use Africans as wage labour and tried to turn it ...

The most expensive thing in the world costs billions. Read on to discover interesting facts about some of these luxurious and ...

The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast ...

The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...

Originally commissioned by King Leopold II of Belgium for his mistress, Caroline Lacroix, the villa later served as a military hospital during World War I. In the 1920s, American architect Ogden ...

Equatorial Guinea, a relatively wealthy Spanish colony, which Macias Nguema had turned into one of the poorest countries on ...

Inspired after a visit to Paris’ Sacred Heart basilica, Belgium’s King Leopold II called for the construction of the basilica. The king himself laid the first stone in 1905, but the basilica ...

1968: Al Oerter of the US wins the men’s discus in an Olympic record 64.78m at the Mexico Games – his fourth consecutive Olympic title. On the same day, Britain’s David Hemery sets a world record ...